by Richard von Busack
A movie about a slouchy superhero didn’t have to be a slouchy movie, but The Green Hornet is thoroughly slouchy work. Even the main villain (played by Christopher Waltz of Inglourious Basterds) …

By Richard von Busack
The mood of Blue Valentine is like the Dave Alvin song “Fourth of July” set to film. It’s July 3 for a working couple in Scranton, PA.: Cindy (Michelle Williams) is a …

(as King Lear, in 2008)
The rumbling, knob-nosed, rough-looking Pete Postlethwaite, who died yesterday, was the kind of integral character actor who could always rest assured that his ten minutes of a movie would be sensational. …

As per the old joke, titillating an ocelot, is the beautiful Anne Francis, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer this morning. Never to be forgot by spy and science fiction fans, Francis had two particularly iconic …

(as reposted by Richard von Busack. Above: The cast of Nutcracker 3D welcomes you to Hell.)
Jan 2, 2010 CE
From: His Imperial Sulfurousness, Beelzebub
To: Assistant Director of Infernal Leisure Services Bastophet
CC: Vice Presidents, Deadly Sins Administration, …

by Richard von Busack
Essentially Little Fockers is a variation of Saw, with more genitorture, and more self-awareness of the comedy in its premise…not that either franchise, Fockers or Saw, is what you’d call funny ha …

By Richard von Busack
Here’s a piece of strayed history:
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That 1978 advertisement, a piece of a vanished world (perhaps it’s not dead but only sleeping) is the subject matter revived in Made in Dagenham.
With its thin …

by Richard von Busack
As Jean Sibelius once wrote, “once you get to the last Lapp, you’re at the Finnish line”. Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (in limited release) is set in the land of the Sami, …

by Richard von Busack
Whether one is a fan of his or not, most would agree that Jack Black is about as big as he ought to get. The computer effects to make Black vast in …

by Richard von Busack
THE COEN brothers’ True Grit is a story of retribution. Mattie Ross (Haile Steinfeld) is a self-assured 14-year-old. She arrives in Fort Smith, Ark., in the early 1880s to track down the …